Lots of people in Sunderland don't refer themselves as Mackems either, even those with shipbuilding heritage.
Start your own club then, maybe call them Mackem FC. Out of interest is someone who is born in Bishop Auckland and supports Newcastle a "Geordie" ?
What about all the Colliery villages of County Durham where a lot of Sunderland's fanbase are from? Are they Geordies or Mackems? Or in fact neither
My dad's a Geordie Sunderland fan and my brothers a mackem mag. It's all a bit Jeremy Kyle but we get along
I'd say neither but that presents us with an opportunity to make up a name for them now. Something like the prince bishops or durhamites maybe
please log in to view this image I'd argue these are Wearsiders, a sort of Sunderland extended area, same accent and people basically.
Disagree, same accent but different lexicon. People South of the map have the elongated a in words like car park, North of it the short vowel ee and oo vowel in words like beetroot.
Cut around Washington and CLS due to Geordie invasion effect, this waters down the Wearside identity of these towns due to football being inextricably linked to identity.
It doesn't mean there aren't good, genuine Sunderland supporters in those areas, it just means demographically there is significant non-Wearsider input to make the area more grey.
